by Muse Seymour

What I Learned from Losing a Role to Philip Seymour Hoffman

This is about the time Philip Seymour Hoffman got that part I auditioned for. In 1999 I read for the role of Gene in Richard Greenberg’s The Author’s Voice, a one-act Cyrano pastiche about a young playwright, his female editor, and the “horribly twisted gnome” who lives in his closet and…